Somehow I don't think the 68,600 homes in our state without power are feeling the warmth from the south at the moment...emotionally or physically. So if you want them to have a good Christmas you should keep all those families and line workers in your thoughts and prayers as they try to get this done before Christmas or the line workers will be out there on Christmas Day trying to restore service to those homes.

Mind you tonight is supposed to be in the teens and that does not figure in the wind chill.

In Honor of my nephew serving our country out of Baumholder Army Base in Germany.

I just got updated totals for customers without power tonight as of five minutes ago...more than 106,000 across the State of Maine.

They say that this is the worst utility outage event in the last eight years. However, that was a rain event in the summer and it was at a time of temps in the upper 60s and low 70s and it took only three days to get everybody back up and running. They say that will not be the case this time.

The last time we had a power outage of this magnitude was 1998 and there were 700,000 homes and businesses without power. There were some places that did not get power back for a month. Funny part or not so funny part was this taking place in January 1998 and we are only a week from that time now.

In Honor of my nephew serving our country out of Baumholder Army Base in Germany.